Sentence examples for notable composer from inspiring English sources

Felix's intensely musical sister Fanny, a notable composer in her own right, was also born in the city.

The most notable composer of preludes, J.S. Bach, gave each prelude its own distinct character; some are akin to arias, others to dance forms, toccatas, or inventions.

And almost every year the remarkable University College Opera still manages to disinter an obscure piece by a notable composer and put it on in the heart of London.

September 20 , 1927Woodford, England February 6 , 2010London, England Sir John Philip William Dankworth, (born Sept. 20, 1927, Woodford, Essex, Eng. died Feb. 6, 2010, London, Eng)., British jazz musician and composer who helped popularize modern and bebop jazz in Britain; he was also a notable composer of film music and a champion of music education.

In 1838 Planché was to collaborate on an opera with another notable composer, Felix Mendelssohn.

In 1887, Giuseppe Verdi became the first notable composer in the Western tradition to write an unmistakable chromatic cluster: the storm music with which Otello opens includes an organ cluster (C, C, D) that also has the longest notated duration of any scored musical texture known.

John Dowland and Thomas Campion were notable composers of ayres.

Notable composers of trio sonatas include Arcangelo Corelli, George Frideric Handel, François Couperin, and Antonio Vivaldi.

Other notable composers and lyricists of this period were Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, Harold Arlen, Jule Styne, and Vincent Youmans.

In addition, Fleisher commissioned or inspired new works from William Bolcom, Lukas Foss, Gunter Schuller, and several other notable composers.

Amplification has been embraced by notable composers as a 21st-century resource of great subtlety and artistic potential.